What a mouthful of corpo-speak but they forgot quite a few important buzzwords so I am not confident in their marketing-communication and ability to execute and there was no talk about synergies either.

Curiously enough, you hit the nail on the head. Sandfall and their fantastic game has become somewhat of a political partisan battleground, where the other side full of performative DEI-wokeness is triple-A and quad-A failures and the usual useful-idiots latching on to corpo-speak when it hails their fav messages and kow-tows.
Sandfall instead just made a great game, but I guess using a synth or a keyboard or a tool like AI to help in the process means it is not pure enough, and finally the corrupt indiegameawards managed to find an excuse to f##k with their most hated game of the year: exp33.
I was surprised they nominated and let them win in the first place, most people did not believe even that would happen. These alleged indie game awards are just pathetic political propaganda.
And now the filthy corrupt long arm of triple-A has gotten its revenge...

Now the OG fakest of the fake meets modern-day fake, what a match made in heaven!

Do not throw USA and EU into the same sentence, the EU is so far behind it is not even funny to compare the two. Your agent orange can try as much as you want or dont want, he will not achieve a downfall to sink to the level of EU.
Meanwhile USA is quite energy independent with strong nuclear and oil and gas reserves, and plenty international sources. EU has been weakened by emotional-Germans (ze nukular) and reverted back to burning coal, while not properly maintaining and improving the grid to adjust for the EV load. And they have no oil or gas reserves worth mentioning nor ones under their control, and very few international sources.

These two are nothing alike.

For decades now German politicians have bowed to steel, automotive and Russian gas, while hollowing out the working and middle class. Look at schroder and his sellout that merkel continued.
They weakened the EU defenses with toxic pacifism, and they stifled progress. And now they are doing it again with EVs because they failed to catch up to modern technologies and markets, for 2-3 decades. Again they are throwing their weight around and making things worse for everyone except themselves and their cronies.
All while undermining privacy and encryption.

It is increasingly infuriating.

The arrogant hubris and high horse riding finally turns to finding-out and it could not have affected a more deserving org than VWG.

It seems the smoldering hole in the ground left by cariad was not lesson enough. Getting pampered by mama merkel for rampant engine-control and emission fraud was not humbling enough, instead enabled them in their f##kery.
The arrogant, overly well paid managers turn out to be nothing but weak, clueless and antiquated; and decades of German politicians bowing to steel and automotive and Russian gas while hollowing out the middle class finally comes home to roost.

Buckle up, Germany, it is going to be a bunch of extremely humbling years coming for you. Back to being the sick man of Europe like in the 90s!

Could not even name a single instance of this alleged long long tradition - prior to WW1 / WW2. Got it.
Then Germany is the OG, my point stands.

These people are overwhelmingly trivial to replace, a few slides and some self important babble is what AI thrives in producing.

The only thing that AI will have a hard time emulating is the filthy corrupt behind the scenes deals and general corruption that the big4 have cultivated as their only real tangible output and product.

Not just a prophet, more like a sad reality guiding-star for some people... but always for the allegedly good-and-justified-cause. Because we were always at war with insert-here.

Surprise, surprise, but it looks like prioritizing science and scientific facts over (60s) radical-postmodern feelings really does pay off! Especially when the population does not have a choice since a totalitarian regime run by a mafia-esque clans party dictates it, and nobody is allowed to have human rights in the face of alleged progress. Everything has to bow to this essential highly diversified war-time economy.

Meanwhile, in the last ten years the US was not sure about their identity and basic vaccines and really tripled-down on these partisan idiocracies. Highest of the high Maslow hierarchy bullshit!t that does not really serve anyone but the peddlers who push it so they can increase their personal influence over and bullying of others.

Show me proof of this alleged rampant USA bug planting prior to WW2 or WW1.

Germany is the original oppressive and unhinged Western regime-country. (Italy was just cute in comparison)

Some of these stereotypical aspects just keep repeating in German history. As if the stereotypical German mind just cannot help itself, from that one notorious political party to the Stasi to modern day invasions of privacy and encryption within Germany and on EU level in Brussels.

Ze surveillanze must happen, Ja?

Teachers used to enjoy carving a special underdog-superhero role in society for themselves, when in reality the vast majority of teachers are not only pretty useless and clueless in teaching, they are often detrimental to learning and motivation of the students. And their declining salaries began to reflect how replaceable they always were. Now we got the comparison studies proving all that. There will be some cultural resistance and screeching about this, I am sure I will get nodded down, but it is not wrong, it reflects reality. A too big portion of teachers never been doing a great job, society just liked to claque for them for some reason.

I cannot help but feel a great sense of vindication and justice, when I look back at some of the abysmal teachers I was subjected to and all the stories I heard and read.

And universities should not just foster communication, they should have always given students chances to work on real issues, studies and projects. Universities should have always given students connections for when they are finished studying, so they can more easily transition into research or other job roles. This will differentiate a regular from a great university, how quickly you can get a job once your degree is finished.

These stupid commodity investments and scalper-insanities just need to stop.
From sneakers to concert tickets to beer to Bourbon and Whisky, there is nothing that is NOT somehow being finagled by greedy, desperate people to squeeze out a few more dollars although they never did anything to deserve those dollars except scam and click Buy a little bit quicker.

They will be sitting on a lot of worthless, cheap China-made trash now that the entire economy is about to topple.

I am more and more surprised by the crazy amalgamations that these more traditional industries come up with in regards to IoT. We have seen online fridges that display ads, dishwashers with an app and more bananas stuff like that.

Why is there hardly any really standard for a personal home automation hub? Nobody really wants all this trash phoning home over the internet to mysterious servers. Controlling it within your LAN area would be mostly enough. And if you REALLY wanted full remote control, then that personal hub should just integrate with existing services like Apple, Google etc. But it should not be every single device doing something different and more stupid, this should be way more standardized, allow you more control over your data and should be much more future-proof.